ARMED ROBBERY

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 17 January 1935, Page 7

ARMED ROBBERY

SHOTS FIRED AT.STOREKEEPER. LABOURER PLEADS NOT GUILTY. (By T«lograpl>—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 16. . Leslie Pearce. . a labourer, aged 29. was committed to the' Supreme Court for trial on a charge, to which be pleaded not guilty, of discharging a revolver at Charles Bourke Bourne, with intent to do grievous bodily harm and for sentence on a charge to which he pleaded guilty, of breaking and entering Bourne’s shop with intent to commit a crime therein. Both offences were alleged to have beeii committed at Woodend on November 28, 1931. The charges were the sequel to a sensational incident in the early morning when the storekeeper discovered intruder* in the shop and fired a gun in the air. calling on the men to come out. Shots were fired with a revolver from inside the shop and Bourne was later hit on the left hand bv a bullet when the. men were making their escape. The Uirincipal police witness was. Robert James Mitchell, who said ho was with accused when the shop was broken into and the shots fired.